On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Tirtha Chatterjee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Andrea Diamantini <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 03/20/2011 09:44 PM, Tirtha Chatterjee wrote: >>> >>> Tabbed browsing, when it was introduced, offered huge breakthroughs in >>> browsing comfort. But there has been little changes in the way tabs >>> have been dealt with ever since. This has given rise to two important >>> use cases- >>> >>> 1. Many people use tabs as temporary bookmarks to mark whatever they >>> want to surf or check out later. They just open it up in a new tab. >>> For example, I find a good link or tutorial, and I open up a new tab, >>> so that I can look at it when I have the time. This has given rise to >>> many many unorganised tabs waiting to be viewed. They clutter up the >>> tab strip and make tabbed browsing a harder task. >>> >>> 2. Many users have this specific style of browsing - I look for xyz in >>> Google, then open up 4-5 relevant entries in new tabs. I open up links >>> in these tabs further in new tabs. This increases the number of tabs. >>> Many users today have an average tab count of over 20. >>> >>> Rekonq currently has "< >" buttons at the end of the tab strip to >>> browse through tabs. But there is no way of organising or grouping >>> those tabs under groups, so that they can be expanded and collapsed at >>> will. This addition will add a logical and more intuitive way of >>> browsing through tabs. Firefox 4 has introduced the Panorama view to >>> group tabs. Opera has also made it possible to group tabs in clusters >>> which can be collapsed, allowing for smooth browsing. I wish to >>> implement this feature in Rekonq as a GSOC project this summer. I >>> would like to have somebody mentor me on this project. >>> >>> Any kind of reviews / suggestions are welcome. >>> >> >> Hi Tirtha, >> I really like your idea but I have to say this is probably something that >> can fit GSoC 2012 :D > I really hope this can be done in this GSOC though :P >> Anyway, let's talk a bit about. I'll write down here some sparse ideas I had >> thinking a bit about your >> proposal. >> >> - I'd like to add this feature as something available as a rekonq page >> (about:tabs or something like that) > I'd prefer if users don't need to open a separate tab to manage their > tabs, and they can do it from the tabbar itself. However, the > about:tabs can be used to manage sessions, save and load them. Or we > can have menu entries for it. one would get an idea of what I wish to implement on taking a look at this link - http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2010/11/hands-on-opera-11-tab-stacking-vs-firefox-panorama.ars And along with this, an option to store all the tab groups into sessions, and load with them. >> >> - people can group tabs and save groups as "sessions" (let's call them this >> way). Any session consist of a window with the tabs listed there. > Tabs can be put into groups. These tab groups would show up on the tab > bar. We can save all the tab groups into one session. That is what I > would prefer. Then we can load entire sessions of work. >> >> - rekonq can start up with one of these "sessions". >> >> - about implementation, we basically need to rewrite the MainView class, >> finally removing the hated KTabWidget and providing a... QGraphicsWidget (?) > I guess it is a KTabBar that is used in Rekonq. We can either write a > KTabGroupBar widget or replace it by a QGraphicsWidget entirely. I > think the former would be a safer choice. >> there. This will be super dangerous :) >> >> I like this, but I'm a bit worried from. And I'm really not sure I can >> properly mentor this project on all its parts. >> Can you please detail a bit more your ideas? > I am really hoping I can find a mentor for this :) >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Andrea Diamantini, adjam >> GPG Fingerprint: 57DE 8E32 7D1A 0E16 AA52 59D8 84F9 3ECD DBF9 730F >> >> rekonq project >> WEB:http://rekonq.kde.org >> IRC: rekonq@freenode >> >> > > > > -- > Tirtha Chatterjee > National Institue of Technology, Durgapur >
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